Saw them at the O2 the other night. Wasn’t expecting a great deal – probably just a bunch old guys going through the motions – but they were bloody great. Best gig for quite a while (far better than Soundgarden and the Pumpkins)

The telegraph is pretty spot on in some respects – but Ozzy’s been doing the shuffly old man routine for a few decades now, so it’s not exactly unexpected – he ain’t gonna change.

The lack of Bill Ward wasn’t a bad thing – the new drummer added a load of energy to the gig. There was also a monster drum solo – during which I presume the rest of the band had a cup of tea and a lie down.

It depends which ozzy turns up tbh… Saw him a few years ago with sabbath, and it was just plain sad, you could see tony spent half the gig trying to look after him and just keep him more or less pointing in the right direction… Singing was awful, all over the place. When they did the wings thing, he ran off halfway through with only one connected and had no idea, stage hands trying to fix it…

But then, weirdly, a bit later we saw him without sabbath and he was on bloody good form- sure, still obviously an old dude and physically limited, but he worked the crowd, he hit most of the notes, basically looked like a man 20 years younger or about 100% less braindamaged.